Posted on 03/02/2022 1:47:41 PM PST by BusterDog
I cannot even imagine the blowback effects this policy will have in years to come. (Assuming the northern hemisphere isn’t a pile of smoking rubble)
Alisher Usmanov is publicly known to handle financial transactions for Russia and for Putin’s personal transactions. Think of him like a bank and that is why he is targeted for sanction.
Also, it seems like no end of Russian flagged vessels are being seized in various ports. Cargo ships, ocean going tugs, yachts, super yachts, mining ships, even some ship designed for cleaning up oil spills has supposedly been seized.
“It isn’t going to be too long before certain people realize that within their spheres of influence, the law means what they say it means”
Putin does this in spades so forgive me if I don’t care if he and his cronies are held to their own standards of justice.
Any Russian sub commander firing a valuable torpedo at a meaningless target and thereby revealing his location will deserve to be shot when he returns to port. Assuming he lives that long.
The Russian billionaire is not Putin. He is not the Russian government. We don’t know if he is for the invasion or against. This action is wrong.
Suppose the US government seized the assets of private American citizens with a Russian background? It’s the same thing. Is it right? No.
What next? seizing the assets of citizens whose ancestors come from a country that supports Russia’s invasion? Will their assets be taken too?
Remember putting Japanese-Americans in prison? Remember interning Italian-Americans?
What is it they say about history repeating itself?
From the information I read yesterday, the yacht is in dry dock. No one can be paid for any completed, unpaid for work. Nor can they do any more work because that would add value. So an expensive boat is stuck in an expensive piece of equipment and may not be moved so that the ship yard could work on another job. Who’s hurt here?
This is just stealing, plain and simple. Something tells them that if you put the word Oligarch in the sentence it automatically negates their rights.
In my opinion, Russia can rightly and justly attack any port that has done that. This is theft and an act of war. Fire at will
Or they could just whack Putin and call it a day.
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International sanctions.
It’s war, in fact if not in declared words. The Germans have done a complete 180 - they don’t like Pooty’s double crossing them and threats at all. I just about fell over when I saw that the Germans were going to over double defense spending for 2022. 3% of GDP.
For being a ruler of Russia. Which in fact is correct in actions and influence if not on paper. (See the trend here?)
Send a missile into the capitol of the EU, rinse and repeat. That is what I would do if it was my yacht. If you can afford a couple of boats that cost $5-600 Million, you can buy the hardware. This is theft, plain and simple. Along the lines of jailing the wives and children of the Boers. Was that a war crime? How about stealing a private citizens possession, in an undeclared war?
Pooty’s blowing up Ukrainian civilians by the yacht-full, and threatening nukes, and we have people on here whining about the legality of seizing a yacht from one of his principal enablers? Incredible! This site is turning into a nest of traitors.
What we should be doing is 10X: Starting the processes toward Russia never again being a serious threat. Unfortunately, Biden is too weak for that.
Well... The Ukrainians have requested the yacht be turned over to them to be refitted as a missile cruiser.
I’m pretty sure that’s just more of the Ukrainian’s wry sense of humor we’ve been seeing in recent days, but, running the boat under remote control at a Russian military vessel seems workable. That way the Russians sink their own guy’s yacht. Maybe add a few tons of fertilizer bomb concealed in the hull to make the bang extra impressive.
You have that backwards. “The EU has been dependent on a strong US force for so long”... the Germans alone had a foreign exchange reserve of 261965 EUR Million in January of 2022.
That’s not a lot for such a large economy, but, the checks are prolly gonna clear.
Germany also had a trade surplus of $221.53B in 2020, which was a bad year for them (COVID).
Not talking money. I am talking acting tough against Russia, without a military to back up its words and actions. Heck, they don’t even have an independent source of energy.
You want WW3? Over a stupid yacht?
SMDH.
We have a mix of Russian trolls, Putineers, and isolationists pushing this nonsense. The isolationists I can understand. The Putineers are traitors.
But I’d love to see Russia’s troll farms targeted for wet sanctions.
Or have him killed for making such a mess of things. The question then becomes: will whoever follows Putin be worse? I've no doubt they will.
That was all over the news late last weekend and early this week.
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